Oliver

Ohhhh, this little boy is such a sweetie! Sadly, we had to reschedule his session twice in the last few weeks due to illness in my family, and I think the third time was a charm! He was so sweet and let us do so much with him. Here are just a few images that I played with while emptying my memory cards to my hard drive. I'm sure I'm going to have more to share later!
Hope you enjoy your sneak peek Shayne and Max! Happy Holidays!

Kristy and Marshall

Celebrated their one year wedding anniversary last month. Congratulations you two!
Kristy had asked me to take a large family portrait of Marshall's family last Friday, but then we also took some time to take a few of just them before meeting up with the rest of the family.

These two look so classic in black and white.

Hope you enjoy your sneak peek!





And check out these red hawt boots Kristy wore! I love them!



I have to say that posting this last image on the web does not do it justice. Something changes when it gets resized and displayed on the web that takes from it's glow. This is an image that begs to be printed BIG.

Winter Vacation

Brothers

This could possibly be my most favorite storyboard ever!

Jen's Family

On Monday I'd called Jen, because we had a session scheduled for her two boys, and was delighted to hear her husband answer the phone which meant it was going to be a family session instead. They got to the park just as the sun was setting, so we hurried and did a few poses we knew we wanted and had enough time to get some fun shots in at a couple of locations.











I also wanted to mention that her youngest son was one of my first newborns I photographed... time moves on too fast.

Crafty me

I did something for me today! :) YAY!
I've been dying to get my hands on a cute cover for my camera strap. Today I decided to spend a little of the money I made doing sessions on one, but as I looked, I couldn't find one I really wanted to plunk 20 bucks down on (well maybe one). But then I remembered one of my friends showing me a link to a tutorial making one. "I can do that!" I thought. So I googled "camera strap tutorial" and found one that looked simple enough for me. I have some material I wanted to use but ended up running to the fabric store for complimentary prints to go with them. I'd also found (while looking for camera straps) a pattern for a super cute purse that I decided to buy material for and try to make. While I was there I saw that a bunch of things I'd been coveting for years were on sale and even some on clearance! Whoopie!!!
So here is my first strap I made. It's made out of flannel that has a pink and green butterfly print with 70's style designs. I love it! It also grips my shoulder better than I thought it would. It also has padding on it so I hope that it will be both comfortable and absorbent on the days I'm working a hot session!

I wish

I had a better way to show my beautiful images than this blog or my website. So often the images I work on look so beautiful in my Photoshop and then once I resize them and sharpen them for the web they somehow lose their lustre.
This is one of those examples. I love how this looked in Photoshop, but now uploaded to my blog it doesn't look right.
I love creating storyboards for my clients. Usually I create one to go in your gallery, but if I haven't and you'd like one made feel free to contact me and I'll get one put together for you!
They are 10 x 20 inches. You can find frames for them at just about any store. They usually come with a mat inside and 3 holes for 4x6 or 5x7 images. You just take the mat out and slip in your print and voila!

Koch Family

On Saturday I met up with the Koch family at Long Lake Regional Park for a family session. It was a warm sunny day but we had quite the wind going which made it a little trickier to get some non-windy hair shots. I love the colors they chose to wear, it's warm and adds to the feeling of the richness of fall and unity of family.
Hope you like your sneak peek!

Samuel

Awww, look at this cute little guy! Samuel was 7 days old when I visited him to shoot some product images. These are the beautiful baby cocoons that Laura Michels makes. They are so soft and warm and cozy! Samuel's mom said at the beginning of the session she wasn't sure how he would do because he hates to be naked, but once we got him into one of these things and his mom cuddled him for a minute he was warm and snuggled and content and stayed that way the whole time he was in there. He loved it!
Congratulations Katie and thanks for letting us use your adorable little guy!
Check here to see Laura's other items!

Reminder

December 2 is the last day to order prints in time for Christmas.